Puerto Rico's Revolt For Independence
Author: Olga Jimenez De Wagenheim
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1985-01-20
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13:
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Puerto Rico's Revolt for Independence
Author: OLGA. JIMENEZ DE WAGENHEIM
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-30
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780367284862
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a socioeconomic interpretation of Puerto Rico's first and most significant attempt to end its colonial relationship with Spain. Looking at the imperial policies and conditions within Puerto Rico that led to the 1868 rebellion known as "El Grito de Lares," Dr. Jiménez de Wagenheim compares the colonization of Puerto Rico with that of Spanish America and explores the reasons why the island's independence movement began decades after Spain's other colonies in the region had revolted. Through the extensive use of previously unresearched archive material, she examines the economic and social backgrounds of the leaders of the rebel movement, corrects many errors of earlier accounts of the revolt, and offers new interpretations of its impact on Spanish-Puerto Rican relations.
War Against All Puerto Ricans
Author: Nelson Denis
Publisher: Nation Books
Published: 2015-04-07
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 1568585012
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept through the island: assassins were sent to kill President Harry Truman, gunfights roared in eight towns, police stations and post offices were burned down. In order to suppress this uprising, the US Army deployed thousands of troops and bombarded two towns, marking the first time in history that the US government bombed its own citizens. Nelson A. Denis tells this powerful story through the controversial life of Pedro Albizu Campos, who served as the president of the Nationalist Party. A lawyer, chemical engineer, and the first Puerto Rican to graduate from Harvard Law School, Albizu Campos was imprisoned for twenty-five years and died under mysterious circumstances. By tracing his life and death, Denis shows how the journey of Albizu Campos is part of a larger story of Puerto Rico and US colonialism. Through oral histories, personal interviews, eyewitness accounts, congressional testimony, and recently declassified FBI files, War Against All Puerto Ricans tells the story of a forgotten revolution and its context in Puerto Rico’s history, from the US invasion in 1898 to the modern-day struggle for self-determination. Denis provides an unflinching account of the gunfights, prison riots, political intrigue, FBI and CIA covert activity, and mass hysteria that accompanied this tumultuous period in Puerto Rican history.
History of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement: 19th century
El Grito De Lares
Author: Olga J. De Wagenheim
Publisher:
Published: 1990-03-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780943862507
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Author: Kal Wagenheim
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A documentary history of Puerto Rico, its problems, present status, tensions and prospects. Organized into ten historically-arranged sections, it begins with the island's discovery and settlement by the Spanish and ends with the Operation Bootstrap programme for industrialization.
War Against All Puerto Ricans
Author: Nelson A Denis
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Published: 2015-04-07
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 1568585020
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The powerful, untold story of the 1950 revolution in Puerto Rico and the long history of U.S. intervention on the island, that the New York Times says "could not be more timely." In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept through the island: assassins were sent to kill President Harry Truman, gunfights roared in eight towns, police stations and post offices were burned down. In order to suppress this uprising, the US Army deployed thousands of troops and bombarded two towns, marking the first time in history that the US government bombed its own citizens. Nelson A. Denis tells this powerful story through the controversial life of Pedro Albizu Campos, who served as the president of the Nationalist Party. A lawyer, chemical engineer, and the first Puerto Rican to graduate from Harvard Law School, Albizu Campos was imprisoned for twenty-five years and died under mysterious circumstances. By tracing his life and death, Denis shows how the journey of Albizu Campos is part of a larger story of Puerto Rico and US colonialism. Through oral histories, personal interviews, eyewitness accounts, congressional testimony, and recently declassified FBI files, War Against All Puerto Ricans tells the story of a forgotten revolution and its context in Puerto Rico's history, from the US invasion in 1898 to the modern-day struggle for self-determination. Denis provides an unflinching account of the gunfights, prison riots, political intrigue, FBI and CIA covert activity, and mass hysteria that accompanied this tumultuous period in Puerto Rican history.
Puerto Rico
Author: Rafael Cancel Miranda
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Our people are becoming aware of their own strength, which is what the colonial powers fear, explains Puerto Rican independence leader Rafael Cancel Miranda. In two interviews, Cancel Miranda -- one of five Puerto Rican Nationalists imprisoned by Washington for more than 25 years until 1979 -- speaks out on the brutal reality of U.S. colonial domination, the campaign to free Puerto Rican political prisoners, the example of Cuba's socialist revolution, and the resurgence of the independence movement today.
Free Puerto Rico
Author: Pedro Albizu Campos
Publisher:
Published: 2021-07-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781105772696
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pedro Albizu Campos (September 12, 1891 - April 21, 1965) was a Puerto Rican attorney and politician, and the leading figure in the Puerto Rican independence movement. Contained in this volume are the most prescient of his words on Puerto Rico, which to this day remains a subject of the United States of America.
The Puerto Rican Movement
Author: Andrés Torres
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9781566396189
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Little attention has been paid to the Latino movements of the 1960s and 1970s in the literature of social movements. This volume is the first significant look at the organizations that emerged in the late 1960s to promote Puerto Rican independence and the radical transformation of U.S. society. The Puerto Rican movement was a response to U.S. colonialism on the island and to the poverty and discrimination faced by most Puerto Ricans on the mainland. This anthology looks at the organizations that emerged to combat these two problems in such places as Boston, Chicago, Hartford, New York, and Philadelphia. Almost all the contributors worked with the organizations they describe. Interviews with such key figures as Elizam Escobar, Piri Thomas, and Luis Fuentes, as well as accounts by people active in the gay/lesbian, African American, and white Left movements, create a vivid picture of why and how people became radicalized and how their ideals intersected with their group's own dynamics.
